"El Bosque de los Recuerdos Olvidados"

A former power plant becomes an art mile; a tea house is built on the remnants of a historical wall. Everywhere we encounter buildings which are no longer used in their original state and now provide the setting for new uses. As disparate as the structures in question themselves are the structural and technological demands they impose on the architect. Whether the subject is energy-conscious renovation or progressive conversion, these new language editions of In Detail: Building in Existing Fabricincorporate innovative examples from Italy, France, and Spain developed specially for these...

¿Por qué el transhumanismo? El nexo entre el transhumanismo y el uso de ordenadores en el diseño arquitectónico es, posiblemente, menos obvio para el público general que para los autores de la siguiente selección de artículos. Sin embargo, es un tema muy serio: los arqutectos, sin saberlo, actúan como filósofos transhumanistas, sociólogos o biotecnólogos. Ya es hora de evaluar las consecuencias tanto de la simulación, concepción y representación virtual como del diseño por ordenador en la arquitectura. Aquí les ofrecemos unas perspectivas muy diferentes de esta significativa...

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

Cecilia Puga belongs, along with Smiljan Radic, Alejandro Aravena and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, to a new generation of Chilean architects who from their peripheral situation address concerns that are very much in keeping with certain avenues explored by European architecture. This issue of 2G brings together seventeen buildings and projects by the Chilean architect, including the exemplary House in Bah’a Azul, in which the classic icon of the section of a house - the outline any child might draw - is manipulated, pivoted and transformed to produce a sense of strangeness in relation to its...